Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 16/11/2025
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.
Labour are set to announce a raft of new measures to fix an asylum system the home secretary says is 'broken'. But do they go far enough?
Produced by Joe Bedell-Brill.
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| 0:36.7 | Hello and welcome to Coffeehouse Shots, The Spectators Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:42.0 | I'm Isabel Hardman and this is the Sunday Roundup. |
| 0:45.7 | This week, the focus is once again on immigration, |
| 0:49.0 | with Labor's new asylum rules the latest attempt by the government to convince the public they can grasp the issue. |
| 0:55.2 | On Monday, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to announce changes to Britain's asylum system, |
| 1:01.3 | which are designed to discourage those who arrive through illegal routes. |
| 1:05.1 | Among those changes is making housing and financial assistance discretionary, |
| 1:09.1 | so that it can be denied to those who can work |
| 1:11.9 | and increasing the amount of time asylum seekers have to wait before they can settle permanently |
| 1:17.1 | to 20 years. On Sky News this morning, Mahmoud said tackling the issue was a moral mission. |
| 1:24.2 | How do you respond to people who say that you're being panicked into a racist immigration policy? |
| 1:31.7 | I reject that entirely. I am the child of immigrants. My parents came to this country legally |
| 1:38.1 | in the late 60s and the early 70s. This is a moral mission for me. I can see that illegal migration is creating division across |
| 1:48.5 | our country. I can see that it is polarizing communities across the country. I can see that |
| 1:54.1 | it is dividing people and making them estranged from one another. I don't want to stand back |
| 1:59.2 | and watch that happen in my country. What is happening |
| 2:02.4 | with our illegal migration system is this is a broken system. It's not right-wing talking points or |
| 2:07.8 | fake news or misinformation that is suggesting that we've got a problem. I know, because I have now |
| 2:13.3 | seen this system inside out, it is a broken system. We have a genuine problem to fix. People are |
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